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Top Medical Search Resources 2009
February 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
Physicians, health professionals and the general public are increasingly turning to the internet as a source of medical information. Rapid and unimpeded access to validated, accurate, digestible and easily retrievable health information is an essential tool in the care-giving belt of the astute medical professional. We have previously looked at some of the most useful [...]
When is a blog not a blog?
December 20, 2009 By 13 Comments
I first started blogging to collate and share an array of educational resources within the medical community and beyond. My first blog (as sandnsurf with the medbrains.net domain) ranked well on search engines which allowed relevant articles to be found easily on the first page of Google. However, last week all the blog articles and even the Life in the Fast Lane website vanished from the face of Google and Technorati…I was no longer classified as a blog and no longer found on Google searches. All Wordpress trackbacks disappeared as Google Blog Search became blinded to this blogs existence…
Information overload
July 8, 2009 By 12 Comments
A question asked at the 2009 ACEM Winter Symposium following our presentation on ‘The Web 2.0 Rollercoaster’ was: How can emergency physicians deal with information overload?
Laika's MedLibLog: 10+1 PubMed Tips
July 1, 2009 By 1 Comment
Here at ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ we have preached the virtues of some of the alternatives to PubMed, but in many ways the old warhorse is still the gold standard. Thankfully, however, I didn’t waste my time, or yours for that matter, because @laikas has done the job definitively with her blog post titled 10 + 1 PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors).
Medical Search for Physicians
June 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
Rapid and unimpeded access to validated, accurate, digestible and easily retrievable health information is an essential tool in the care-giving belt of the physician
Top Bedside Health Search Engines 2008
December 30, 2008 By 4 Comments
Mednar has just been voted the ‘clear number one‘ by Medical librarian and author – Hope Leman (writing for AltSearchEngines.com) in her Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008. My list is based on ‘rapid resolution’ at the bedside (or at least pretty close to it!). Needing to find answers to clinical questions, guidelines, images [...]
Mednar the Health Search Solution
December 30, 2008 By 1 Comment
Mednar is a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers to quickly access information from a multitude of credible sources. Researchers can take advantage of Mednar’s many tools to narrow their searches, drill down into topics and discover new information sources. Mednar is here and it is good. Check it out medical librarians, [...]
Yottalook – worth a look
December 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Yottalook is free radiology-centric web search engine and was designed to provide the practicing radiologists with the most important and relevant information at the time of patient care. The search engine is based on natural query analysis, semantic ontology and ranking algorithms powered by iVirtuoso.
Health Sciences Online
December 18, 2008 By 5 Comments
Health Sciences Online (HSO) has launched claiming to be a ‘virtual learning center’ which aims to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge using the search technology of Vivisimo. HSO (www.hso.info) is a portal with browse and search functions with access to a comprehensive collection of top-quality courses and references in medicine, public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, basic sciences, and other health sciences disciplines.
